Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 52

Initiator Creator - Issue #52

By Saurabh Y. // 27 March 2021

Developer

Open-source excursions: Optimizing for operational resiliency - Increment

Documentation, automation, and a little sharing-is-caring can help OSS projects maintain their uptime.

Comparing the experience of Svelte and React - Jack Franklin

It’s hard to see the pros and cons to frameworks without trying them out yourself. Here’s a good look at how this developer found Svelte versus React.

Compat2021: Eliminating five top compatibility pain points on the web - Web dev

Google is working to fix the top five browser compatibility pain points for web developers.

What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App - Mattias

Mattias shared some key insights about building a Shopify app, like shopify expect you to make a onepage application, polaris design system officially only supports react, and API is unrealiable etc.

The End of AMP? - Lafoo

Google has confirmed that AMP pages will stop receiving special treatment in search results. So, does this lack of ranking boost spell the end of the framework?


Designer

6 Essential Podcasts for Product Designers to Listen - UserGuiding

Sometimes you get to a point in your industry, where there is no resource to learn or get inspired from any further. It happens to product designers too, maybe much more often. Only if there were a way to listen to experts on product design as they share their experiences and provide insights.. How about podcasts?

Debranding Is the New Branding For Burger King, Warner Bros - Bloomberg

From Burger King and Toyota to Intel and Warner Brothers, major brands are discarding detail and depth. Why now, and what’s the rush?

Figma will no longer be free from April 2021! Well, sorta. - Dorve

In what is perhaps the most anticipated event in the history of UI software, Figma announced that from April 21, 2021, it changes its access model. In an email sent to subscribers of the application, Figma announced that it is moving to a model that preserves free, but in a more restrictive way.

What No One Explains About the Design Process - UX tools

Experienced designers usually come to realize that clinging to a process framework is incompatible with the reality of the everyday work of a designer. Why? One process does not fit all scenarios. Everyone does it differently (even if they follow the same process):


Entrepreneur

For Better Products, Start With a Problem Statement - Intercom

The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

Chaotic good - Increment

As software systems become ever more complex, chaos engineering provides a (not-actually-so-chaotic) tool kit for building more reliable and resilient systems.

A Three-Step Framework For Solving Problems - UX Collective

Though many factors contribute to a project’s failure, nothing is more certain to cause a project to fail than a misunderstanding of the problem you are solving.


Marketer

How to Make Pricing A Customer Storytelling Tool - Product Marketing Community

A marketer’s approach to pricing and packaging should be customer-driven, meaning you should design the pricing and packaging model to fit the way customers want to buy.

The Secrets Behind Morning Brew's Growth to 2.5 Million Newsletter Subscribers - Spark loop

Jenny led the Growth team at Morning Brew through their journey of growing to 2.5 million highly engaged subscribers. And she was kind enough to share her engagement-focused approach to growth

Good Slides Reduce Complexity - SEO MBA

Tom Critchlow, Founder of SEO MBA, worked at Google for two years, and in that time he learned nothing about SEO - instead he spent two years putting presentations together. Turns out this is a rather useful skill.

Cancellation Emails: Examples and Best Practices - DesignModo

Much like win-back emails, cancellation newsletters play an important role in retention. People churn, people lapse. However, this type of email helps your company to deal with this situation gracefully and even turn it around.


Interesting Read

Everything is broken, and it’s okay - Increment

Accepting that imperfect things still work is fundamental to preventing failures from becoming catastrophes.

Musturbation: the irrational demand for perfection - Ness Labs

The American Psychological Association defines musturbation as “the belief by some individuals that they must absolutely meet often perfectionist goals in order to achieve success, approval, or comfort,” adding that “cognitive and behavioral therapies may be useful in bringing awareness and perspective to such maladaptive cognitions.”


Community Submissions

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Outro

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